The United States is a nation of many stories. These are but a few of them. Don miller is a pewtermsith. He works in harpers ferry, west virginia. I am more interested people who are here made things ended things. I am treading on the same ground making things. Harpers during the civil war john brown attacked the town and captured the arsenal. John brown thought he had a Divine Commission to destroy slavery. After he was captured and hanged, the people of the north looked upon him as a martyr to because of abolition. Im trying to preserve the spirit of individualism by using my hands to make things. I am making a personal statement, a sort of prayer. I have been a pewtersmith for 13 years. The important part of the word is smith, somebody who hand forms metal. I like to see things i make used. It breaks my heart to see anything ive made in a museum. I make it so people can feel it and touch it and use it. People are hungry for works with personality that have been touched by human hand
Also its first event since coronavirus restrictions were lifted. Those are some of your top stories on this monday, june 15th. We do begin this half hour with the autopsy report stemming from the Police Shooting that sparked new protests in atlanta. The medical examiner has labeled the death of Rayshard Brooks a homicide, saying the 27yearold died from two gunshot wounds in his back. The altercation happened after brooks was found sleeping in his car. One Police Officer has been fired and the District Attorney expects to reach a decision on charges in a couple of days. Abcs reena roy has more. Reporter rally cries echoing loud throughout the city of atlanta. Protesters shutting down a highway saturday night. Officers deploying tear gas. This wendys where 27yearold Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed by police later burned down. His family trying to cope with their sudden loss. I couldnt believe it. I didnt know that i was going to wake up to my husband never coming home. Its sad. It ha
Notion that it couldnt happen, that they could not elect a catholic president of the United States. If you know our political history for the decades preceding that with al smith and others there was evidence that , you cannot elect a catholic, and that was all transcended and exploded one night in november 1960. And so the world we were looking at in 1968 when i could really finally Pay Attention was a world coming apart in the United States. The vietnam war is raging, we had an incumbent president Lyndon Johnson who had been elected four years ago in a landslide who was on the way to an easy reelection again. He was very likely to be facing some of very good at losing president ial elections. Richard nixon, who had the distinction in history at the beginning of 1968, of being the very first Vice President in history to lose a president ial campaign. He then made Hubert Humphrey the second 1968. As the year began, it was back in that ancient america where if someone said, i democrat o
A cancer of hatred in america after 5 or stabbed at a jewish celebration. Get now tens of thousands of a stray and still to leave their homes as bush fires flare in another state. Their warm welcome to this hour of news well the u. S. Is calling them precision defensive strikes they are iraq the Prime Minister has labeled them quote im acceptable an american attack on the bases of a shia armed group close to the Syrian Border is causing new friction 3 camps of cuts a of hezbollah our hits in iraq one of them near all kind and 2 more inside syria at least 19 people have been killed well the pentagon says its in response to repeated rocket attacks on iraq he bases the most recent one killed an american civilian contract to just a few days ago well Simona Fulton explains why these targeted airstrikes appear to be an important shift in u. S. Action in iraq. Well there are quite significant because this is actually the 1st time that the u. S. Actually strikes a target on iraq his soil lets
Hello there the u. S. Is calling them proof precision defensive strikes the iraqi Prime Minister has labeled them quote an acceptable and american attack on the bases of a shia on group close to the Syrian Border is causing new friction 3 camps of cats a hezbollah our hits in iraq one of them near and 2 inside syria that least 1000 people were killed the pentagon says its in response to repeated rocket attacks on iraqi bases the most recent one killed an american civilian contractor just a few days ago well similar to fulton explains why these targeted airstrikes appear to be an important shift in u. S. Action in iraq. Well there are quite significant because this is actually the 1st time that the u. S. Actually strikes a target on iraq his soil lets remember the not until too long ago the u. S. And were fighting against isis on the same side but of course since then the tensions between the u. S. And iranian backed groups have played a quite a bit and this particular at attack were he